They Should Add An Official Damage Meter With One Condition

[Grebeny]

They will not add DPS metter for the same reason chat is disabled in PvP, even if harrasment is against ToS, people would do it more often when the option is in the game and mods will have extra work.

On other side, FF is not made to have any DPS metter and (surprise, surprise), DPS metters are not accurate at the moment and they were never accurate. Big portion of the DMG is calculated with formulas or simulations to work around missing numbers or information. If SE are releasing thier own metter, they should provide accurate tool that guarantee proper numbers and with the current system that is not possible. I don't believe they will rewrite the entire workflow of dps'ing to help the part of the community that just can't understand how the battle system works and can't live without DPS metter.

[Yeastyloins]

They will not add DPS metter for the same reason chat is disabled in PvP, even if harrasment is against ToS, people would do it more often when the option is in the game and mods will have extra work.

On other side, FF is not made to have any DPS metter and (surprise, surprise), DPS metters are not accurate at the moment and they were never accurate. Big portion of the DMG is calculated with formulas or simulations to work around missing numbers or information. If SE are releasing thier own metter, they should provide accurate tool that guarantee proper numbers and with the current system that is not possible. I don't believe they will rewrite the entire workflow of dps'ing to help the part of the community that just can't understand how the battle system works and can't live without DPS metter.

How so? ACT pulls information from the battle log. Any aberrations in the combat log either prevent it from being uploaded to FF logs or if it is, FF logs will not assign a ranking to it.

[VerdeLuck]

How so? ACT pulls information from the battle log. Any aberrations in the combat log either prevent it from being uploaded to FF logs or if it is, FF logs will not assign a ranking to it.

ACT can't calculate DPS with included buffs like Bard or Dancer when it's used as a DPS meter, it only spits out the raw damage everyone does. It makes every job that does heavy damage with no utility look like they're doing more proportionally than they actually are, and the opposite with jobs that do little DPS but have high utility.

[Shurrikhan]

ACT can't calculate DPS with included buffs like Bard or Dancer when it's used as a DPS meter, it only spits out the raw damage everyone does. It makes every job that does heavy damage with no utility look like they're doing more proportionally than they actually are, and the opposite with jobs that do little DPS but have high utility.

It doesn't do so constantly/spontaneously since that would greatly increase its computational needs and arguably wouldn't be any more useful to, say, someone trying to decide whom to give Balance/Dragon Sight, but a parser absolutely could make those adjustments if there was enough demand for that option that its makers would bother with it.

[Yeastyloins]

ACT can't calculate DPS with included buffs like Bard or Dancer when it's used as a DPS meter, it only spits out the raw damage everyone does. It makes every job that does heavy damage with no utility look like they're doing more proportionally than they actually are, and the opposite with jobs that do little DPS but have high utility.

Right but its still there, and while its not in ACT overlay you can just live log it and check it in FFlogs for rDPS. Even then, if you are able to see the total damage of the raid group in the meter, then you still can make determinations for specific buffs such as who you card on AST, patterns for DNC or DRG.